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Moonstone

Real name: Dr. Karla Sofen 
Occupation: Psychiatrist, psychologist 
Identity: Publicly known 
Legal status: Citizen of the United States with a criminal record, pardoned 
Place of birth: Van Nuys, California 
Group affiliation: None 
Base of operations: World Senate 

Height: 5 ft. 11 in.
Weight: 130 lbs. 
Eyes: Blue 
Hair: Blond 

Known superhuman powers:  Due to the power of the Moonstone, Karla Sofen has the ability to create light in any portion of the spectrum, including the infrared and ultraviolet parts. She can use this for various effects, including producing blinding bursts and lasers. She can fly a moderate speeds, change her costume's appearance, and has a limited ability to phase through solid objects

History: Doctor Karla Sofen was the daughter of a poor single mother, who worked very hard as a maid for rich families in order to provide her dauther with opportunities she never had. Eventually Sofen was able to attend a prestigious university and become a professional psychiatrist. Although capable, Sofen would often resort to immoral tricks to ensure her continued practice.

Sofen still craved power and control over others, and began pursue criminal activities to achieve that end. She became an associate and student of the criminal mastermind Dr. Faustus, but left him after Faustus' defeat by the hero Captain America.

Later, she was asked by a prison board to help cure Byron Becton, the villain known as Moonstone. Using hallucinogenic gas to make Becton think he was a monster, she caused him to reject the source of his powers: the moonstone, a rock taken from the Blue Area of the moon and believed to be invested with some power from the alien Watcher. When she took the rock from him and absorbed it into her hand, she assumed the energy powers that were his.

After mastering her new powers and calling herself Moonstone, she offered her psychiatric services to Doctor Leonard Samson who was treating the monstrous Hulk. Samson invited her to the US Army's Gamma Base where she used her security clearance and powers to gain access to the secret "Gammavator" weapon components, devices which she hoped to sell to the Corporation, a now-defunct criminal cartel. Her theft was interrupted by the Hulk, however, and after holding her own against the brute for a while, she faltered and had to use trickery to extricate herself from the situation.

Her cover uncompromised, she was contacted by Senator Eugene K. Stivik, a member of the Corporation, and offered a position in the eastern branch of the organization. Accepting, she was soon involved in a war between the East and West Coast factions of the Corporation, a struggle also involving the Hulk, Captain America, the Falcon, and Quasar. She was eventually apprehended and imprisoned.

The criminal mastermind Egghead freed Moonstone from prison to recruit her into his Masters of Evil outfit. She assisted him in his scheme to discredit his old enemy Henry Pym (now Giant Man) until Egghead was killed and she was apprehended. She was turned over to the government energy facility Project: Pegasus for study but managed to escape with the aid of fellow prisoner Blackout, evading capture by the hero team Avengers. When the Avengers caught up with them, Blackout surrounded them with his darkforce energy and teleported them to the moon, where Moonstone hoped to find more moon rocks to augment her power. The two were apprehended by the mutant Dazzler and the moon-dwelling Inhumans and returned to Project: Pegasus.

When Project: Pegasus abandoned its research on superhuman beings, Moonstone and Blackout were among the test subjects to be transferred to a new facility. They were freed en route by agents of the second Baron Zemo, who was organizing a new Masters of Evil. Moonstone was integral to the Masters' invasion of the Avengers' mansion headquarters, mostly due to her mental domination of the clearly insane Blackout. Moonstone tried to use her position to wrest control of the Masters from him, but was defeated by Zemo and Blackout's sudden break of independence. Moonstone fled the scene pursued by the Avenger Captain Marvel (now, Photon) and accidentally ran into the side of a cliff, rendering her hospitalized for several months.

After recuperating, Moonstone evaded imprisonment, and ended up working for South American arms dealers which pitted her against Captain Marvel once again. Defeated, she was imprisoned in the superhero facility known as the Vault. She remained there until rescued by Zemo and coerced into joining his newest Masters of Evil, who were to begin posing as heroes of a new team, Thunderbolts.

Soon after Onslaught took over the world, and Zemo offered the team to Onslaught, who gladly accepted them. He turned them into a "Villain Rehabilitation" team, dedicated to track down and rehabilitate villains. The roster changed (including Zemo himself, who has dissapeared) but Karla remained on it. Once Onslaught was defeated she immediately begun to seek someone who can help her gain power. She thougt of Doom and headed to Latveria. Doom gladly took her in, making her one of his most trusted soldiers, and helped rebuild the peace in Latveria. When Captain America gave control of the world to Doom, Moonstone continued to serve him, and for the last two months she's been working on the World Senate project, side by side with the Empress. Now that the project was given green light by the Council of Doom, she will become America's FIRST SENATOR, representing the country in the World Senate. Such is her rewards for helping create the project. She will act as the Senate's first Chancillor, or President. This truly is the best time in her life.